Bitcoin - transaction speeds, and Sidechains

Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain "Liquid" is now live, but it's not as decentralized as you might think. (2018)

Breakthroughs in zero knowledge proof cryptography have led to faster and more efficient algorithms, leading to scalability and privacy solutions o... (2022)

But we still don’t have consensus mechanisms that can scale to transaction speeds that are typical of mainstream web apps, we don’t yet have consen... (2018)

The rise of solutions like the lightning network suggests crypto can have its cake and eat it too. Transactional scaling may just be the icing. (2018)